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A Parade of Those I've Sometimes Been

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C. Pomerleau Each songs are unique and unveil a great sound textures exploration on analog synth's classics. Favorite track: Loosen.
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1.
Leave It On 04:45
I’ve played the tapes through Hurt everyone of you Stretching miles of chromium cases Over time, erasing both face Leave it on, play it through Leave it on, until it break in two Leave it on, play it through Leave it on, until it break in two The labels were scratched out Can’t remember how it turns out Srtipped away, removing what’s under Demagnetized, pillaged and plundered With every turn, another track gets burned With every rotation, we lose the whole creation With every turn, another track gets burned With every rotation, we lose the whole creation Leave it on, play it through Leave it on, until it break in two Leave it on, play it through Leave it on, until it break in two
2.
Loosen 03:44
It’s time to sever the wires All remaining outliers Keep it all We want nothing at all Cast all ambitions aside It’s time to loosen the lies Around your neck The only noose left To loosen All conditions are set All contingencies met Keep it all We want nothing at all This place is all we have left We’re only here to forget We had it all All we want is to see it loosen We’ll try to hide We’ll let it loosen We’ll see the signs It loosens more every time We’ll try to hide We’ll let it loosen We’ll see the signs It loosens more every time
3.
Our heads full of sandbags We’re choking on red flags Above us, the rig’s cut There’s no way to reach up We’ll stay down here Crossing linres and chasing time Stay down here Encrypting keys you won’t find The secrets we carry In words that we bury We buckle beneath them The beasts of our burden We’ll stay down here Crossing linres and chasing time Stay down here Encrypting keys you won’t find We made mistakes We thought it would be ok We lost at our own games We won’t resurface anyway We made mistakes We thought it would be ok We lost at our own games We won’t resurface anyway We’ll stay down here Crossing linres and chasing time Stay down here Encrypting keys you won’t find
4.
A blank page in the dust My mouth is drying up I got stuck I’m scared to look up Counting all your scars Trenches around your heart Tripwire triggered doubts I’ll never find the way out Let’s play our hands While we still can Fill my holes Don’t stop Until I’m whole Fill my holes Don’t stop Until I’m whole Watching my fevered crops My sutures are cracking up Threshing through the sieve Something’s gotta give Counting all your hearts Trenches like little scars Barbed-wire skin I’ll never find the way in… in shock Let’s play our hands While we still can We’re not whole Don’t stop Fill our holes We’re not whole Don’t stop Fill our holes
5.
The summer cars heave up the years Bucket seats drip behind our ears The melting pavement treackle is slow The days are far too thick to know The week-old sun covers everyone Even when your’e gone We’ll remember the kind of days we had The week-old sun buries everyone Even when your’e gone We’ll remember the kind of days we had We can’t take it back We can’t take it We can’t take it back We can’t take it The week-old sun covers everyone Even when your’e gone We’ll remember the kind of days we had The week-old sun buries everyone Even when your’e gone We’ll remember the kind of days we had
6.
The Fallen 04:53
Step on the scattered heads of fallen idols Close to the door Close to the door The meek shall not pass into the furnace This isn’t yours These bulls and boars Let it all fall out place We’ll never replace it all Let the ashes clean your face We’ll see it burn before it falls There’s a scaffold to outer space But it won’t hold us It won’t reach across the breach Let it all fall out place We’ll never replace it all Let the ashes clean your face We’ll see it burn before it falls
7.
Fire Starter 03:47
Please, please stop I don’t want to blow us all up You’re setting traps Making sure we fall through the cracks Of all that’s been said I’ll still don’t know what’s going through your head I don’t mind Just tell me what you’re hoping to find Why can’t we try Why can’t we try at all Please, please stop Can’t you see we’re shit out of luck I promise we’ll find A way back to before we were blind Why can’t we try Why can’t we try at all
8.
I wake up in an empty home Surrounded by the masks I wear each day A parade of those I’ve sometimes been All the people I’ve chosen to replace No one lives here anymore All these words were never mine before Today I can put on a braver face Now that mine has been fully erased None of my masks have any eyes The only way to never be recognized I stumble through life completely blind I walk into walls with total peace of mind Under the pearl white skin My true nature begins
9.
Monsters 05:28
10.
No Archives 05:15

about

For his first solo full-length, Toby Andris decided to put away his guitars and focus on his collection of vintage synths (Roland System 100, MKS-80 Super Jupiter, SH-101, Korg Mono/Poly).
Most songs were written in Tbilisi in the summer of 2019, except for tracks 8-9-10, written in Paris in 2018.

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released September 26, 2021

Written, produced, and recorded by Toby Andris
Mixed by Isabel Schröer (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7), Clément Barda (6), and Matthew Jacob Lederman (8, 9, 10)
Mastered by Isabel Schröer at Olo Mastering
Sleeve design by Michael Durcak, from an NFT by Yako (@yako.foto)

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